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Fable 2 (Xbox 360) Review

Summary [8.5 out of 10]
The first Fable game is known just as well for its list of unfulfilled promises as its solid and fun game play. Fable 2 finally delivers on some of those promises but still fails to revolutionize RPGs as we know them.
It has a much longer quest, more satisfying side quests, and [...]

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Epic Fail or My Reputation Has Obviously Preceded Me

I’ve been playing video games since I was a kid, back in the 80’s heyday of the arcades. I played them as much as I could and after having the knock-off specialist Texas Instruments system during those days, I have gone out of my way to own the systems that I want. After the N64 [...]

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I Blame Fallout 3 or Why My Christmas Cards Cost More Than Your Dinner

So I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep the last few nights. The first night was because I was determined to finish Fable 2 before bedtime, which turned out to be five A.M. I woke up at 10 to run to Target to pick up the Dark Knight on Blu-ray. That night, I started playing Fallout [...]

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Big Fable 2 Patch Coming Soon

Lionhead has posted a news update on their blog that the long-awaited Fable 2 patch that was suppose to grace Xbox Live in October, is finally nearing completion.
While this patch focuses mostly on game-stopping glitches in missions, there is an ambiguous “Additional unspecified fixes” in the fix notes. I currently have a friend that has [...]

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Technicolor Employee Responsible for Gears of War 2 and Fable 2 Leaks

Technicolor Employee Responsible for Gears of War 2 and Fable 2 Leaks

As it turns out one of the ways that games get leaked early to the intertron like Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and that cursed early release of Fallout 3 to BitTorrent networks is by having employees on the inside of the disk-pressing process stealing them.
NEWS FLASH: Local blogger attempts to become BFFs with [...]

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Fable 2 Co-Op Patch Ready to Go – Early Reviews Suggest A+

Lion Head has announced that the co-op “patch” for Fable 2 has been certified by Microsoft and all is green-lit; so when you buy Fable 2 on October 21st and pop it into your Xbox 360 to play, you’ll see the all-to-common “There is a patch available for this game, would you like to apply [...]

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Fable 2 Will Have Co-Op at Launch, Day-One Patch

Awesome, looks like Fable 2 will have Co-Op play at it’s launch thanks to a Day One patch (e.g. as soon as you pop the disk in, it will apply a patch).

Remember a couple of days ago (or was it a week) where on a blog it was mentioned that Fable II would be shipping [...]

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Fall 2008 Must-Have Co-Op Xbox 360 and PS3 Titles

There is no avoiding it, multiplayer support in a game, even the longest RPG, can extend a game’s life well beyond it’s initial single-player play through; even allowing the game to grow into it’s own cult status like a Halo or Counter Strike.
While most players used to seem pretty satisfied with Death Match or CTF [...]

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Fable 2 GDC Walkthrough Summary

As a follow up to the super-Co-Op that Fable 2 will have in it, I watched the GDC walkthroughs and am here to summarize them for you:
NOTE: I am not clear from the walkthrough if the co-op is online or offline only. He talks a lot about the “camera” and how it manages to keep [...]

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Fable 2 to have Persistence Co-Op

Good lord… it’s like Molyneux dug into my brain, found my fantasies, removed all the perverted ones, and decided to design an RPG that makes me cry tears of healing.
What am I talking about? Fable 2 is going to not only be completely co-op-able with a friend, it’s also going to be a persistent co-op [...]

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